Browsing ODA Open Digital Archive by Author "Paulsen, Jan Merok"
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Balancing trust and control through dialogue meetings in Norwegian school district governance
Henriksen, Øyvind H.; Paulsen, Jan Merok (Educational Research for Policy and Practice;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-01-18)Increased attention has been paid to school superintendents and their role in school reforms. Still, there are few studies on dialogue meetings between actors at different lev- els in the school hierarchy. The current paper ... -
Combining capacity for instructional leadership with individual core practices in the Norwegian policy context
Jenssen, Mette Marit; Paulsen, Jan Merok (Educational Management Administration & Leadership;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-03-07)This study explores how Norwegian school leaders develop their capacity for instructional leadership, a leadership style that is strongly related to school effectiveness and school improvement across a range of national ... -
Conceptualizing Professional Commitment-Based School Strategy. A Finnish Perspective
Paulsen, Jan Merok (Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE);Vol 2 No 2-3 (2018): Special Issue: Leading and organizing the education for citizenship of the world, Journal article; Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-10-25)Core values inherent in the Finnish comprehensive education system can in many respects be interpreted to cluster and cohere around a Bildung discourse, which is paradoxically seen against the backdrop of the system’s ... -
Leadership Strategies in Diverse Intake Environments
Ballangrud, Brit Bolken; Paulsen, Jan Merok (Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE);Vol 2 No 2-3 (2018): Special Issue: Leading and organizing the education for citizenship of the world, Journal article; Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-11-02)The case study subjected in this paper was designed to illuminate how school leadership strategies and interventions mediate external demands, in the form of the academic press, for raised outcomes, imposed from the policy ... -
Linking school leaders’ core practices to organizational school climate and student achievements in Norwegian high-performing and low-performing rural schools
Forfang, Hilde; Paulsen, Jan Merok (Educational Management Administration & Leadership;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12-13)Prior research has suggested that well-performing school leadership clusters around a set of general core practices, which appear to be effective across a range of national, social and cultural contexts, yet contingent of ... -
Mediation, Collaborative Learning and Trust in Norwegian School Governing: Synthesis from a Nordic Research Project
Paulsen, Jan Merok; Henriksen, Øyvind H. (Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education;Vol. 1 (1), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This paper analyses productive patterns through which school superintendents and subordinated principals collaborate at the local levels of implementation in the Nordic countries. The underlying theoretical premise is that ... -
National strategy for supporting school principal’s instructional leadership: A Scandinavian approach
Aas, Marit; Paulsen, Jan Merok (Journal of Educational Administration;Vol. 57 No. 5, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Purpose: A number of empirical studies and evaluations in Norway and Sweden shows variabilities in the degree to which the municipalities succeed in their endeavors to support school principals’ instructional leadership ... -
Norwegian Superintendents as Mediators of Change Initiatives
Paulsen, Jan Merok (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-09-04)The underlying theoretical argument in this article views munici- pal school superintendents in the Nordic context as middle man- agers in organizational theory terminology. Empirical support for this discussion emerges ... -
Under What Conditions Do Rural Schools Learn From their Partners? Exploring the Dynamics of Educational Infrastructure and Absorptive Capacity in Inter-Organisational Learning Leadership
Forfang, Hilde; Paulsen, Jan Merok (Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education;Vol 3 No 4 (2019): General issue: Nordic Comparative and International Education Moving Forward, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-12-11)This case study was designed to explore the strategies and actions that high performing schools with sus-tainable results employ at the district level in arural part of Norway. The district subjected to the study is ...